Reborn in 1940 and survived until the new century

"Is this what you just ate?"

"Yes, that's it, vegetable dumplings!"

"Okay! Vegetable dumplings!

But it tastes terrible, doesn’t it?

"It's unpalatable, but if you don't want to go hungry, you can only eat vegetable dumplings!"

"Okay then, I'll eat vegetable dumplings too."

"Okay, our Dongdong is a big boy now."

"Hey, I'm a big kid now."

"Yes, big boy."

From that day on, many people would often show up hungry in front of their children and jokingly ask, "What did you eat at home?"

At this time, the little guy at home was talking there with a sad face.

"Vegetable dumplings!"

As soon as everyone heard that it was vegetable dumplings, they knew the situation of this restaurant.

In fact, everyone eats almost the same thing. Even if some families are better off, they will not show off outside at this time.

I was really afraid that someone would come to borrow food from me. At this time, food was life.

Even though we have two employees at home, this is not the time to look at income.

On the other hand, it depends on the number of people in the family. At least families with more people can use more fine grains to exchange for more sweet potatoes.

This family with a small population cannot change much even if they want to.

We can only think of other ways, otherwise our family members won’t be able to eat until they are 70% full, let alone half full.

It’s not bad to be able to eat vegetable dumplings. Where can some families get so many vegetables?

In fact, not only is there a shortage of food, but even the oil that people cannot live without every day has been rationed. Now, city dwellers are only supplied with 2 taels of oil per person per month, and country dwellers are only supplied with 1 tael of oil per person per month.

It is no longer the previous 16 taels system, but has been changed to 10 taels system.

By this calculation, isn’t there something less?

With so little oil for our family of three every month, it is far from enough for them to eat.

Every time I cook, I wish I could just dip my chopsticks into a drop of oil directly from the soup pot.

Fortunately, my family had stored some animal oil and bacon early on, otherwise, if I had continued to be so frugal, I wouldn’t have needed to lose weight at all and would have been malnourished before March.

In the previous life, many people were dieting to lose weight, but now there is no need for that at all, because there is not much to eat and not much oil. Isn’t it easy to lose weight?

Not to mention that when we can’t even get oil, we ordinary people can forget about eating meat.

The supply of pork is also in short supply, and the higher authorities have stipulated that it should be supplied "based on the number of people and the number of tickets".

Three meat coupons are issued each month (one each for the first, middle and last ten days of the month). Each coupon provides 3-1 taels of fresh meat. If the meat purchased is less than 3 yuan, the coupon does not need to be registered.

As for these few pounds of meat, if you don't queue up in advance to buy it, but instead save it, not to mention whether you can buy it, sometimes you may not be able to buy it even if you want to.

There were so many people queuing up to buy meat that every time I got my meat ticket,

Guo Huaian would get up early the next morning and go directly to the sales point to queue up.

We waited in line for a very long time. There was only a small amount of meat for a family of three. Even though we waited in line for several hours, it was not in vain.

Then you won’t buy meat and cook it all at once. First, cut the lean meat into cubes and separate the fat, and put them in a pot to make animal oil.

Mix the oil residue with the diced meat, add it to a large bowl of wild vegetables, and steam large buns made of three-grain flour to eat.

With so many big buns, a family can eat them for at least two to three days. As for the animal oil, it will not be used directly for cooking.

At that time, no one knew how to cook. They just boiled the vegetables or ate them as porridge.

When eating, add a drop of oil or some lard, so that you can eat it for a few more days.

Every time this time came, not only the children in the post office’s staff quarters, but also the children in the staff quarters of other units would smell the aroma of meat.

They would just follow the smell of meat and go straight to the house of the one who eats meat. If the door is not closed in time, they probably wouldn't even be able to eat the meat themselves because it would be snatched away by others in a moment.

And as for the person who was eaten, what can’t you do to the child?

Only after suffering a loss once, the next time you eat meat, you must close the door tightly.

After this happened, no matter which family ate meat, they would never leave their door open again. Instead, they would close the door.

So much so that when the children smelled meat, they would knock on the other party's door and shout.

"Open the door, open the door, I want to eat meat, eat meat."

Or they might throw a tantrum and yell in front of their elders.

"I want to eat meat, eat meat, do you hear me? I want to eat meat."

Some parents who can't persuade their children will say this.

"Okay, okay, isn't it just eating meat?

We will go to queue up tonight, and if we can buy meat, we will cook it for you. If we can’t buy it, you can’t make a fuss anymore, right?”

"Really?"

"If you don't believe it, just forget it?"

"I believe it, isn't it okay if I believe it?"

"Since you believe it, then hurry up and get up. Don't be afraid of losing face."

"Oh!"

Some families, when they see their own children making a fuss, would say...

"Eat, you only know how to eat, are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost?

You still want to eat meat? Do you think I look like a piece of meat? Or just eat me up!"

Then you would hear the other person beating and scolding the child, or simply yelling at the family who ate meat.

What I mean is, if your family didn't eat meat, would our children be like this?

Some people with bad tempers will curse at her without caring about anything, while some people don't care about all this and just think that putting the meat into their own stomachs is the most important thing.

I am one of those people in my family. I always take advantage of others cooking meat to eat.

I followed closely and when the meat was cooked, I didn’t have time to go downstairs to watch the fun. It was more important to eat the meat first.

In fact, it's not just our family that's like this, many families are like this as well. The reason is that they don't want to have to worry about eating meat, either because of one family's children making a fuss or because of other families' children making a fuss.

While everyone was calculating how to eat, other things, not to mention, also began to be supplied in a planned and rationed manner.

This is not the case when buying things in the market, especially the supply of non-staple food, which is not much more than the grain.

Even the most insignificant things, like cabbage, radish, onion, garlic, and garlic have started to be grown.

Not to mention that candy and tofu were also being supplied in limited quantities with tickets, because the demand was too great and the quantity was too small.

As a result, the types of supplies supplied by tickets continued to increase.

At the same time, some commodities such as cigarettes, alcohol, tea, soap, laundry detergent, candles, matches, light bulbs, thermos bottles, baking soda, baking soda, etc., were also supplied in limited quantities with purchase certificates.

It can be said that now everything related to ordinary people that you can think of is related to tickets.

There is no way, because the goods are scarce. Even if everyone has money at this time, you can't buy them whenever you want.